Example sentences of "up their [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave up their attempts to cross the Swamp and set out instead to get round it . |
| 2 | To lose Cochinchina , they said , would be like France losing Alsace-Lorraine ; and with the French stepping up their efforts to create the impression of autonomy in Cochinchina the conference ended in total disagreement . |
| 3 | BRITISH Muslims are being encouraged to renew their battle against the author Mr Salman Rushdie and to step up their efforts to achieve a ban on his novel , The Satanic Verses . |
| 4 | COMPANIES that supply optical fibres to British Telecom are stepping up their efforts to cut the price of the fibres in the face of international competition . |
| 5 | United rolled up their sleeves to show the bookies how wrong they are at making them favourites for relegation … |
| 6 | United rolled up their sleeves to show the bookies how wrong they are at making them favourites for relegation … |
| 7 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 8 | Mr Garrard has kept birds of prey all his life , and he and his wife gave up their jobs to start the Feather Perfect Display Team , and often put on displays for children . |
| 9 | The soldiers , sailors and airwomen are among 5,500 women illegally forced to give up their careers to have a family , according to a European Equal Opportunities Commission ruling . |
| 10 | But she was still slightly surprised when she found Father Barnes showing round groups of visitors , experts interested in Victorian architecture , who enthused over the baldachin , admired the Pre-Raphaelite paintings on the eight panels of the pulpit , or set up their tripods to photograph the apse , and who compared it , in confident , un-ecclesiastical tones ( surely even experts ought to lower their voices in church ) with the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice or with Blomfield 's similar basilica at Jericho in Oxford . |